ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,059, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for supporting multiple message a sizes and uplink coverage for two step random access procedure" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services base...